Quotes About Numbness

Stuff yourself very full of kippers," Luke said. "Then it will be impossible to feel anything at all.

The dead alone feel no pain.

GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep and intense that they could not be acknowledged because they could not be lived with.

He was drained of feeling, and he felt very old and tired.

He felt at times that he was a kind of vegetable, and he longed for something—even pain—to pierce him, to bring him alive.

He felt at times that he was kind of a vegetable and he longed for something--even pain-- to pierce him, to bring him alive.

if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.

The only thing I'd understand right from the very beginning was that our love was supported by loneliness. That neither one of us could haul ourselves up out of the deadly numbness we felt when we lay together, so silent, in darkness so isolating it seemed to shine. This was the edge of night.

It felt like the inside of my stomach had turned completely black. Like a black hole. You could throw in anything you liked, I wouldn't even notice—my head was drifting through the clouds—everything would just go right in, things just kept going in... I was dragging all this black stuff along behind me, it was so heavy I could barely stand.

Perhaps it's better to be unhappy than not to feel anything at all,' I said.

Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.

Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy, or integrity. You will be hollow.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.

M The heat is going out of me. C The heart is going out of me. B I feel nothing, nothing. I feel nothing.

That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

I couldn't feel anything either, shock alone possessing me, depriving me of any emotional meaning.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

I wasn't cold, I wasn't anything at all I was only a blur.

I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.